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... sent Henry , Archbishop of York , to urge his suit at the Papal court ; and when , in 1154 , Roger of Pont l'Evêque was promoted to the see of York , the merits and the exertions of Becket were rewarded with the archdeaconry of ...
... sent Henry , Archbishop of York , to urge his suit at the Papal court ; and when , in 1154 , Roger of Pont l'Evêque was promoted to the see of York , the merits and the exertions of Becket were rewarded with the archdeaconry of ...
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... sent out disguised purveyors , who bought up enormous quantities in the towns and villages around ; so that , on arriving at his lodgings in the Temple , he found them stored , at his own cost , with three days ' supplies for a thousand ...
... sent out disguised purveyors , who bought up enormous quantities in the towns and villages around ; so that , on arriving at his lodgings in the Temple , he found them stored , at his own cost , with three days ' supplies for a thousand ...
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... sent representatives to claim the office for him , and the suffragans of Canterbury were willing to admit the claim , as sanctioned by usage , if Roger would restore the canonical subjection which he had withdrawn from their ...
... sent representatives to claim the office for him , and the suffragans of Canterbury were willing to admit the claim , as sanctioned by usage , if Roger would restore the canonical subjection which he had withdrawn from their ...
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... sent them away with a present of four pieces of silver to each.a b We must think that this last part of the story throws suspicion on all the rest . The daily taking - in of beggars , foot - washing , feeding , and giving of money ...
... sent them away with a present of four pieces of silver to each.a b We must think that this last part of the story throws suspicion on all the rest . The daily taking - in of beggars , foot - washing , feeding , and giving of money ...
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... sent him , during his Chancellorship , as doing all that in prudence he could do to check the tendency to aggression and encroachment ; as continually averting measures which were intended against the Church , and as becoming an ...
... sent him , during his Chancellorship , as doing all that in prudence he could do to check the tendency to aggression and encroachment ; as continually averting measures which were intended against the Church , and as becoming an ...
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Page 189 - God, who feeds the fowls of the air and clothes the lilies of the field, would provide for him and the companions of his exile.
Page 96 - Concerning appeals, if they should occur, they ought to proceed from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop. And if the archbishop should fail to...
Page 87 - Erat, ut memini, genus hominum qui in ecclesia Dei archidiaconorum censentur nomine, quibus vestra discretio omnem salutis viam querebatur esse prseclusam.
Page 341 - Lastly, on our requesting that his holiness would send your lordship a summons to appear before him, he answered with much apparent distress, ' God forbid ! rather may I end my days than see him leave England on such terms, and bereave his church at such a crisis.
Page 254 - Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come." In truth his mind was filled with forebodings of evil. His official conductor to England had been John of Oxford, Dean of Salisbury, one of his principal opponents, and at Canterbury some officials of the king demanded in his name the absolution of the suspended and excommunicated bishops.
Page 279 - Strike! strike !" cried Fitzurse to his companions, and with the point of his sword he dashed off the Achbishop's cap. Tracy then raised his sword, and Grim, wrapping his arm in a cloak, lifted it up to ward off the stroke ; but the weapon almost severed the monk's arm, and descending on the Archbishop's head, cut off the tonsured part of his crown, which remained hanging only by the skin to the scalp.
Page 279 - Benedict within the chapel. It is a proof of the confusion of the scene, that Grim, the receiver of the blow, as well as most of the narrators, believed it to have been dealt by Fitzurse, while Tracy, who is known to have been the man from his subsequent boast, believed that the monk whom he had wounded was John of Salisbury.
Page i - TEMPTATION. i6mo. 2s. 6d. Boultbee.— A COMMENTARY ON THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. By the Rev. TP BOULTBEE, formerly Principal of the London College of Divinity, St. John's Hall, Highbury. Crown 8vo. 6s. IN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE. Bright.— Works by WILLIAM BRIGHT, DD, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. THE ROMAN SEE IN THE EARLY CHURCH : And other Studies in Church History. Crown 8vo.
Page 88 - Henry, provoked by their appearance of unanimity, asked them one by one whether they would obey the customs of his ancestors? The Archbishop replied that they would, " saving their order," and the bishops severally made the same declaration, with the single exception of Hilary of Chichester, who, alarmed by the King's evident anger, thought to escape the difficulty by substituting the words bond, fide for salvo ordine. This change, however, instead of appeasing Henry, added to his exasperation. He...
Page 154 - It was forbidden to mention the Primate in the public prayers. The sheriffs were charged to arrest and imprison all persons who should appeal to the Pope ; and any one who should be caught in bringing letters from the Pope or the Archbishop was either to be hanged, or to be put into a crazy boat and turned adrift to the mercy of the waves.